the was aposting of a guy with the same error and he just delete the ling out of system file and reentered, so did the same, restated imap and it work...go figure.

but thanks for your time

hi
i have the same problem but when i run lsof -i | grep courier i have


couriertc 4028 root 5u IPv6 14850 TCP *:imap (LISTEN)
couriertc 4041 root 5u IPv6 14862 TCP *:imaps (LISTEN)


[root@esd /]# nmap localhost

Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-03-01 21:58 IRST
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
(The 1644 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
143/tcp open imap
443/tcp open https
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
993/tcp open imaps
3306/tcp open mysql
6000/tcp open X11
10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.439 seconds


[root@esd /]# nmap localhost -p 106

Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-03-01 21:58 IRST
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
PORT STATE SERVICE
106/tcp closed pop3pw

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.332 seconds

would you please help me to solve my problem
Thanks.